In the Public Eye : A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940

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Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France? In answering this question, James Allen move...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, James Smith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Intellectual life.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Livres et lecture > France > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Livres et lecture > France > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Books and reading > France > History > 20th century.
Books and reading > France > History > 19th century.
France.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siecle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
France > Intellectual life > 19th century.
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France? In answering this question, James Allen moves easily from one interpretive framework to another and draws on a wide range of sources--novels, diaries, censor reports, critical reviews, artistic images, accounts of public and private readings, and the letters that readers sent to authors about their books. As he analyzes reading ""in the pu
Physical Description:1 online resource (382 pages).
ISBN:9781400862313

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